The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSEYour soul is the whole world.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
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And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
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Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
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Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
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His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
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Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.
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When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.
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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
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